Eliza M. Chandler White (May 1, 1831 – June 2, 1907) was an American social reformer and charity work leader, as well as an abolitionist, and clubwoman.
Jason Humiston, the son of James and Hannah, married Amy Peck, and they were the parents of Juliana, the wife of Hiram Chandler.
[4] She taught school until her marriage on February 24, 1857, at Grafton, Illinois, to Stephen Van Culen White, a lawyer who attained wide prominence in his profession and was, during the latter part of his life, an influential member of the New York Stock Exchange.
[2] During their early married life, Mr. and Mrs. White lived in Missouri at a time when the question of slavery was causing much excitement and public feeling.
Mrs. White favored the abolition of slavery and strove personally to raise the educational status of the African Americans by teaching reading to all whom she could.
[2] In 1881, she founded the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, and, assisted by her husband, raised the greater part of its endowment fund of US$100,000.
[1] She was also at the head of the Prison Ship Martyrs Committee of the National Society of the D.A.R., and with the aid of her husband secured an appropriation from New York State and another from the United States government, and received a sufficient sum by private subscriptions, to erect the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York.